Free Google Meet timer
A Google Meet timer with nothing to install.
Set a countdown or a timed agenda here, float it over your screen and share your screen in Meet. Everyone on the call sees the minutes run down over your slides or your doc. It runs in a Chrome tab you already have, so there's no extension to install and no add-on to approve.
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Open it as a window and share just that window from the call, or go full screen on a second display. In Chrome or Edge on a computer it can also float on top of everything you share.
SpaceStart or pauseNNext+ / −A minute more or lessRResetPPop outFFull screen
What are you timing?
- min
- min
- min
Make it yours
Mint
Digits
Progress
Floating window
When time runs low
Turn amber with this much left
So whoever is talking knows to wrap up. Turns shorter than that warn at a third of their time.
How to add a timer to a Google Meet call.
- 1Set the timer up herePick a countdown, an agenda or a standup, set the minutes and give it a label.
- 2Float it over your screenPress Float over my screen. Chrome opens a small window that stays on top of every tab and app. Drag it into a corner.
- 3Share your entire screen in MeetClick Share screen in the Meet toolbar and choose Entire Screen in the picker. If you share a tab or a window, the timer isn't in it.
- 4Start itPress Start, or Space. Everyone sees the minutes go down, then amber when time runs low and red when it's up, without anyone saying a word.
Four timers, one floating window.
Switch between them at the top of the timer. Each one remembers its own minutes, names and items.
Countdown
One block of time: a focus session, a workshop exercise, a break, a talk. Amber near the end, red past zero.
Agenda
A timer for every item, with what's next on screen. Press Next when an item ends early; the rail shows what's done.
Standup
Names in speaking order, shuffled every round if you like. Everyone gets the same turn, and the next name is always showing.
Stopwatch
Counts up with no limit, for open-ended sessions: you'll know exactly how long that brainstorm took.
Make it look like it's yours.
It's on everyone's screen for the whole meeting, so it might as well look good. Pick a look, a typeface and how it shows progress.
- Design review24:59
Bold
- Ava01:12
Serif
- Lightning talk04:30
Thin
- Retro09:41
Mono
- 1:115:00
Paper
- Your gradient30:00
Your colors
Floats over everything
Pop it out and it stays on top of your slides, your editor and the call, in Chrome and Edge. Drag it anywhere, resize it from the edges.
Ten looks, or your own
Gradients, Forgot blue, Midnight, Paper, Terminal, or pick your own color or gradient. The text color adjusts so it stays readable.
Four typefaces
Bold, thin, mono or serif digits, sized to fill whatever window it's in, from a corner of your screen to a wall display.
Progress your way
A bar along the bottom, a wash that drains behind the digits, a ring next to them, or nothing at all.
Buttons that get out of the way
While it runs, the controls fade until you move the mouse, so the shared screen shows only the time.
Keyboard first
Space starts and pauses, N moves on, plus and minus add or take a minute, R resets, P pops it out, F goes full screen.
Shows when it ends
“Ends 10:45 AM” in the corner, worked out from what's left of every item, so the room knows when it's free.
A link for the team
Copy a link with every setting in it, so whoever runs tomorrow's meeting opens the same timer, names and look.
Presenting a tab in Meet?
Meet looks sharpest when you present a single Chrome tab, but a tab share shows that tab and nothing else, so the floating timer stays on your side. Share Entire Screen when you want the timer over your slides.
When the timer is all you want on screen, for a break, a silent brainstorm or a workshop exercise, press Open as a window and present just that window.
Keep Meet calls on schedule.
Google Calendar can shorten meetings for you: turn on speedy meetings in its settings and 30-minute events end at 25, hour-long ones at 50. Set the timer to the shorter length, and the time between calls stays yours.
On a free Google account, Meet calls with three or more people end at 60 minutes. A 55-minute countdown with a five-minute warning gives everyone time to agree next steps before Meet cuts the call.
The meeting that runs best is the one everyone can make.
Forgot shows the whole team's time off, public holidays and on-call on one board, so you book the meeting on a day people are in, not the week half the team is away.
Try it free for 14 daysMore for meetings: the meeting cost calculator has a live ticker that floats over your screen share the same way, the retrospective games come with timed agendas, and the 1:1 questions fill the time you saved.
Questions
How do I add a timer to Google Meet?
Set the timer up on this page and press Float over my screen. In Meet, click Share screen and choose Entire Screen. The floating timer sits on top of everything you share, so everyone on the call sees it.
Do I need a Chrome extension or a Meet add-on?
No. The timer is a web page: it runs in a tab and floats in a window Chrome opens for it. Extensions usually ask to read the pages you visit; this asks for nothing.
Should I share a tab, a window or my entire screen?
Your entire screen, when you want the timer over your slides or your doc. A tab or a window share shows only that tab or window. To show just the timer, open it as a window and share that window.
How do I time a free 60-minute Google Meet call?
Set a 55-minute countdown with a five-minute warning. It turns amber with five minutes to go, before Meet ends calls of three or more people on a free account.
Can everyone on the call hear the chime?
Usually not: the chime plays on your computer. Meet shares sound when you present a tab; for the entire screen it depends on your browser and system. Treat the color change as the signal for the room and the chime as a nudge for you.